[announce] NYCBUG Wednesday April 2 on ZFS

[NYC*BUG Announcements]

Wednesday April 02, 2008

ZFS on FreeBSD

6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant
http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php

Ike & Yarema will tag-team this meeting.

ZFS — the breakthrough file system in FreeBSD 7 (ported from Sun's 
Solaris 10 Operating System) delivers virtually unlimited capacity, 
provable data integrity, and near-zero administration. However FreeBSD`s 
sysinstall(8) does not yet support installing the system onto anything 
more exotic than a commonly used UFS partition scheme. Furthermore, 
FreeBSD`s boot loader(8) cannot yet load the kernel and modules from ZFS.

This meeting will cover installing FreeBSD 7.0 on ZFS as the root 
filesystem with a boot partition on a GEOM gmirror. Attendees are 
encouraged to read, download and try the zfsboot scripts at 
http://yds.CoolRat.org/zfsboot.shtml The rational behind the zfsboot 
script will be demystified and an install will be demonstrated. Anyone 
who brings a (minimum 1 Gig) USB thumb drive can go home with a bootable 
"root on ZFS" installer. Anyone who brings a hard drive can go home with 
FreeBSD installed on a ZFS root.

Bios

Yarema has been a FreeBSD administrator for more than a decade. A 
contributor to the FreeBSD ports collection. Likes to mouth off about 
his latest exploits with the OS only to be rewarded by getting 
"volunteered" to do a lecture at an upcoming NYC*BUG meeting.

Ike has been orbiting NYCBUG since the beginning. Not only does he not 
think within the box, he doesn't even know there *is* a box. He used to 
give talks on jail(8) in New York, but since he`s been banned from it, 
he is forced to do them for other unsuspecting BSD users at conferences 
like AsiaBSDCon and EuroBSDCon.